CONTACT CENTER RESOURCE SUBSCRIPTION NOTIFICATION
First Claim
1. In a contact center comprising a plurality of work item containers, each work item container associated with a respective work item to be serviced and including information associated with the respective work item, and operating such that, when a state of a selected work item container changes, a set of entities that subscribed to be notified of a state change in the selected work item and/or corresponding work item container is determined, and each of the members of the set of entities is notified of the state change by a subscription notification, an improvement comprising the subscription notification including an applet that is downloaded onto at least one entity corresponding to a resource, the at least one entity being a computational device and the applet interacting with the resource to assist the resource (a) in selecting the work item and/or work item container referenced in the subscription notification for servicing and/or (b) in servicing of the selected work item andor work item container.
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Abstract
A contact center is provided that includes an input operable to receive work items 204a-w, a work item processing agent 200 to populate work item containers 212a-i with information respecting the received work items, and a notification agent 216 to notify subscribing entities of state changes in the work item containers. The processing agent transfers work items to a subscribing entity when requested by the subscribing entity via a subscription notification comprising an applet or serve-let.
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22 Claims
- 1. In a contact center comprising a plurality of work item containers, each work item container associated with a respective work item to be serviced and including information associated with the respective work item, and operating such that, when a state of a selected work item container changes, a set of entities that subscribed to be notified of a state change in the selected work item and/or corresponding work item container is determined, and each of the members of the set of entities is notified of the state change by a subscription notification, an improvement comprising the subscription notification including an applet that is downloaded onto at least one entity corresponding to a resource, the at least one entity being a computational device and the applet interacting with the resource to assist the resource (a) in selecting the work item and/or work item container referenced in the subscription notification for servicing and/or (b) in servicing of the selected work item andor work item container.
- 10. In a contact center comprising an input operable to receive work items, a work item processing agent operable to populate work item containers with information respecting the received work items, and a notification agent operable to notify subscribing entities by a subscription notification of state changes in the work item items and/or work item containers, the processing agent transferring work items to a subscribing entity when requested by the subscribing entity, an improvement comprising the subscription notification including an applet that is downloaded onto at least one entity corresponding to a resource, the at least one entity being a computational device and the applet interacting with the resource to assist the resource (a) in selecting the work item and/or work item container referenced in the subscription notification for servicing and/or (b) in servicing of the selected work item and/or work item container.
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16. In a contact center comprising a plurality of work item containers, each work item container associated with a work item for servicing and including information related to the respective work item, and operating such that, when a state of a selected work item container changes, a set of computational entities that subscribed to be notified of a state change in the selected work item is determined, and each of the members of the set of entities is notified of the state change by a subscription notification, an improvement comprising:
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in response to a resource selecting for servicing a work item described in a subscription notification, downloading an applet onto at least one communication device of the resource; and the applet thereafter interacting with the resource, during servicing of the selected work item, to assist the resource and/or collect information from the resource. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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Specification